Job flow dynamics and firing restrictions: Evidence from Europe

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 521, 2007, Pages

  Messina, Julián ^a,b   Vallanti, Giovanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FIRM SIZE; JOB SEARCH;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34347399970     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02057.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Autor, D.H., Donohue, J.J. III, and Schwab, S.J. (2006). 'The costs of wrongful-discharge laws', Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 88 (2), pp. 211-31.
2. Autor, H., Kerr, W.R. and Kugler, A.D. (2007). 'Does employment protection reduce productivity? Evidence from US States', Economic Journal, vol. 117, pp. F189-F217.
3. Baldwin, J., Dunne, T. and Haltiwanger, J. (1998). 'A comparison of job creation and job destruction in Canada and the United States', Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 80 (3), pp. 347-56.
4. Bauer, T.K., Bender, S. and Bonin, H. (2004). 'Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments', IZA Discussion Papers, No. 1105, April, Bonn.
5. Baxter, M. and King, R.G. (1999). 'Measuring business cycles: approximate band-pass filters for economic time series', Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 81 (4), pp. 575-93.
6. Bentolila, S. and Bertola, G. (1990). 'Firing costs and labour demand: how bad is eurosclerosis?', Review of Economic Studies, vol. 57, pp. 381-402.
7. Bertola, G., Blau, F. and Kahn, L.M. (2007). 'Labour market institutions and demographic employment patterns', Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
8. Blanchard, O. and Portugal, P. (2001). 'What hides behind an unemployment rate? Comparing Portuguese and U.S. labor markets', American Economic Review, vol. 91 (1), pp. 187-207.
9. Blanchard, O. and Wolfers, J. (2000). 'The role of shocks and institutions in the rise of european unemployment: The aggregate evidence', Economic Journal, vol. 110, pp. C1-33.
10. Boeri, T. (1996). 'Is job turnover countercyclical?', Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 14, pp. 603-25.
11. Boeri, T. and Cramer, U. (1992). 'Employment growth, incumbents and entrants: Evidence from Germany', International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 10, pp. 545-65.
12. Boeri, T. and Jimeno-Serrano, J.F. (2005). 'The effects of employment protection legislation: Learning from variable enforcement', European Economic Review, vol. 49 (8), pp. 2057-77.
13. Borgello, A., Garibaldi, P. and Picelli, L. (2002). 'Employment protection and the size of firms', LABORatorio Revelli, Torino.
14. Caballero, R. and Hammour, M. (1994). 'The cleansing effect of recessions', American Economic Review, vol. 84 (5), pp. 1250-368.
15. Contini, B., Pacelli L., Filippi, M., Lioni G. and Revelli, R. (1995). 'A study on job creation and job destruction in Europe', Study for the Commission of the European Communities, DGV, Torino.
16. Davis, S.J. and Haltiwanger, J. (1990). 'Gross job creation and destruction: Microeconomic evidence and macroeconomic implications', NBER Macroeconomic Annual, vol. 5, pp. 123-68.
17. Davis, S.J. and Haltiwanger, J. (1992). 'Gross job creation, gross job destruction and employment reallocation', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107 (3), pp. 819-63.
18. Davis, S.J. and Haltiwanger, J. and Schuh, S. (1996), Job Creation and Destruction, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
19. Dolado, J. García-Serrano, C. and Jimeno-Serrano, J.F. (2002). 'Drawing lessons from the boom of temporary jobs in Spain', Economic Journal, vol. 112 (480), pp. F270-95.
20. Dolado, J.J. and Gómez-Salvador, R. (1995). 'Creación y destrucci ón de empleo en el sector privado manufacturero español: Un análisis descriptivo', Investigaciones Económicas, vol. 19 (3), pp. 371-93.
21. Dolado, J.J., Jansen, M. and Jimeno-Serrano, J.F. (2005). 'Dual employment protection legislation: A framework for analysis', CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5033, CEPR.
22. Foote, C.S. (1998). 'Trend employment growth and the bunching of job creation and job destruction', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 113 (3), pp. 809-34.
23. Garibaldi, P. (1998). 'Job flows dynamics and firing restrictions', European Economic Review, vol. 42 (2), pp. 245-75.
24. Gómez-Salvador, R., Messina, J. and Vallanti, G. (2004). 'Gross job flows in Europe', Labour Economics, vol. 11, pp. 469-85.
25. Kahn, L.M. (2007). 'The impact of employment protection mandates on demographic temporary employment patterns: International microeconomic evidence', Economic Journal, vol. 117, pp. F333-56.
26. Koeniger, W. and Prat, J. (2007). 'Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection', Economic Journal, vol. 117, pp. F302-32.
27. Konings, J. (1995). 'Job creation and job destruction in the UK manufacturing sector', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistic, vol. 57, pp. 5-24.
28. Kugler, A.D. and Pica, G. (2007). 'Effects of employment protection on worker and job flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform', Labour Economics, forthcoming.
29. Lagarde, S., Maurin, E. and Torelli, C. (1994). 'Créations et suppressions d'emplois en France: Une étude de la période 1984-1992', Economie et Prévision, vol. 113-4 (2/3), pp. 67-88.
30. Mortensen, D.T. and Pissarides, C.A. (1994). 'Job creation and job destruction in the theory of unemployment', Review of Economic Studies, vol. 61 (3), pp. 349-415.
31. Nickell, S., Nunziata, L., Wolfgang, O. and Quintini, G. (2001). 'The Beveridge curve, unemployment and wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s', CEP Discussion Paper DP0502, July.
32. OECD (1994). Employment Outlook. Paris: OECD.
33. OECD (1999). Employment Outlook. Paris: OECD.
34. OECD (2004a). Employment Outlook. Paris: OECD.
35. OECD (2004b). 'Detailed description of current employment protection legislation', Background material for Chapter 2 of OECD Employment Outlook, Paris: OECD.
36. Ravn, M. and Uhlig, H. (2002). 'On adjusting the HP-filter for the frequency of observations', Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 84 (2), pp. 371-6.
37. Sala-i-Martin, X. (1997). 'I just ran two million regressions', American Economic Review, vol. 87 (2), pp. F178-83.
38. Schivardi, F. and Torrini, R. (2004). 'Threshold effects and firm size: the case of firing costs', Temi di Discussione della Banca d'Italia no. 504, June.
39. Schuh, S. and Triest, R. K. (1998), 'Job reallocation and the business cycle: New facts for an old debate', in Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles? Proceedings from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series no. 42.
40. Stiglbauer, A.M., Stahl, F., Winter-Ebmer, R. and Zweimüller, J. (2002). 'Job reallocation and job destruction in a regulated labour market: The case of Austria', Working Paper No. 78, Österreichische Nationalbank.
41. Vereck, S. (2004). 'Threshold effects of dismissal protection legislation in Germany', IZA Discussion paper no. 991.